Professor Denise Stanley

Denise Stanley holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural
and Natural Resource Economics from the
University of Wisconsin‑Madison.
She previously received degrees from Occidental College, the London
School of Economics and Oxford University. Her masters thesis centered on
group lending while the doctoral dissertation examined
non-traditional exports in Central America.

She is currently employed as a Professor of
Economics at California State University-Fullerton (CSUF), with a
specialty in economic development and applied microeconomics. She
regularly teaches Managerial Economics, the Economics of Latin America,
and other undergraduate classes related to global economic issues.
She has taught other lower-division undergraduate classes and graduate
classes such as Benefit-Cost Analysis. She is a co-Principal
Investigator on research examining the impacts of financial literacy
training on educational outcomes. In 2007 she was the recipient of
a Fulbright Research and Lecturing
Award (Honduras). Her current research focuses on the
causes of international migration from Central America and its impact on
sending communities, the potential of non-timber forest products for
sustainable development, and how different teaching pedagogies and class
size affect student learning.

Previous to her arrival at CSUF, she worked at the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville in the Department of Economics and the Madison Area
Technical College. She has undertaken internship, missionary, and
consulting assignments in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Central
America for a variety of foundations and non-governmental organizations.

She enjoys hiking with her family throughout the Southwest, playing
tennis, raising small animals, and international music.

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